Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 15 (60 MCQs)

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1. Psychology is .....
2. Who are the people established Gestalt Psychology?
3. *According to the serial position effect, you will remember more:
4. Giving the test to a large group of people that represents the kindof people for whom the test is designed is called .....
5. What two psychological approaches dominated psychology from the 1920s to the 1950s?
6. The part of the neuron that decided if the message will travel to the next neuron or not is the .....
7. When an action has no apparent result, you may conclude it was ineffective.
8. The ..... nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord.
9. Who was the first person to be referred to as a psychologist? (HINT:Who was the first person we discussed?)
10. What is the main concern of cross-cultural psychology?
11. We communicate in order to:
12. Which theorist explained that positive reinforcement makes children more likely to repeat wanted behaviour?
13. A change in bodily function or activity that occurs more often than 24 hourly is referred to as
14. Which IQ tests yield a verbal score and a performance score, as well as an overall score of intelligence?
15. Trauma has effects on which brain region
16. What does Humanistic Psychology consider essential for personal development?
17. A response to the belief that the independent variable will have an effect on the subjects when they haven't been given the independent variable.
18. Which of the following is a common method to reduce bias in psychological experiments?
19. Who pointed out that Lawrence Kohlberg experiment was bias towards white upper-class males?
20. What is the term for the mental process that involves the manipulation of information to reach a conclusion or solve a problem?
21. Ainsworth's 'Strange Situation' is a procedure used to assess:
22. What is introspection?
23. Treat mental illness with medication.
24. What is the term for the concept that refers to the influence of early attachment on later relationships and behavior?
25. Conventions are cultural constraints
26. Cultural variations in attachment have been studied by researchers like van Ijzendoorn. What is a common finding in these studies?
27. Albert Bandura would be best qualified to promote which of the following agendas?
28. Which of the following is an example of a positive correlation?
29. Which describes an educational psychologist?
30. Which describes a developmental psychologist?
31. A psychologist who studied the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness. They study how animals and people adapt to their environments.
32. The branch of psychology concerned with the quantification and measurement of mental attributes, behavior, performance, and the like, as well as with the design, analysis, and improvement of the tests, questionnaires, and other instruments used in such measurement.
33. This psychologist was the first woman to become the President of the APA:
34. Anything that a human or non-human animal does is called
35. What is the focus of psychoanalytic theory?
36. It is fine for a psychologist or social worker to judge a client if the client is making really damaging or foolish decisions.
37. ..... psychology focuses on internal mental state
38. Which of the following is not the drawback of being a counsellor
39. Piaget's term for the knowledge that an object exists even when it is out of sight is .....
40. Since professional athletes are very competitive it is likely that they have what type of personality
41. What percent of group talk is complaining?
42. Justine is at a lego factory watching the plastic being poured into the molds, and the pieces being stamped out for each character. This however is not as interesting as when she remembers playing with her completed legos. This experience most likely aligns with which school of psychological thought?
43. Ms. Bown uses her knowledge of a person's cognitive processes to design computer programs that are easier to use. Ms. Bown is most likely a(n) ..... psychologist.
44. What is Matched Pairs Design?
45. When she stands in front of her classmates, Sraavani cannot recite a poem she had memorized. Sraavani is
46. A number representing a measure of intelligence, resulting from the division of one's mental age by one's chronological age and then multiplying that quotient by 100.
47. Which describes a sport psychologist?
48. Psychoanalytic psychology focuses mainly on:
49. A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment
50. Health Psychology focuses on the relationship between the mind and the body.
51. Which medium of communication would be considered for Formal Communication
52. Lawrence Kohlberg is a ..... psychologist who created the ..... development theory.
53. A "code of ethics" is most like .....
54. *Which of the following processes is likely to result in the best memory for words?
55. Biological science focuses on
56. Loftus' research showed that the most problematic source of inaccurate eyewitness testimony was from
57. Phrenology was a pseudoscience that believed different portions of the brain were responsible for different functions. True or False?
58. Which of these options are NOT a task that younger brains are better at?
59. What is a potential drawback of using self-report measures in psychological experiments?
60. What is trephination?